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Andrew yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Jun 2 05:38:01 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 05:10, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Andrew wrote :
> 
> > [...] xsane was working before gimp-1.3, so I try to downgrade to
> > gimp-1.2x then brainstorm from there.... 'yum erase gimp' (I have only 
> > gimp-1.3.20 from here) removed gimp-1.3.20-1.fr, gimp-perl 1.2.3-9,
> > sane-frontends-1.0.8-4 and gtkam-gimp-0.1.4-6. Look fine? then 'yum
> > install gimp'  kindly asked my if installing gimp-1.2.3-9 is ok? I say
> > 'yes' since this is exactly what I want to do then I got this: 
> > 'file /usr/share/man/man5/gimprc.5.gz from install of gimp-1.2.3-9
> > conflicts with file from package gimp-devel-1.3.20-1.fr'
> > I though removing *all* the gimp files would be the right thing to do,
> > then, re-install them one by one as needed?
> 
> Seems like you just forgot to erase gimp-devel :
> 
> rpm -qa '*gimp*'
> (will show you all packages installed containing "gimp" in their name)
> 
> You would have seen it then. From the rest of your email, it looks like
> you finally got everything solved package-wise. Sorry to read that you
> waisted a whole afternoon because of me, though :-(
> 
> Matthias

No, not you fault pal. I began to clickety-click like mad and got myself
into some trouble. It was not your fault at all ;)

Go in peace!